Stuff Keeps Happening

A poll shows that sentiment about the direction of the United States has severely dropped among even Republicans. What does that really mean?Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/where-were-going/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

We found the coolest rock in the history of cool rocks. We've also made a bunch of incredible technological strides while the world tries its best to politically shit the bed.CORRECTION: The company who accidentally threw away dev kits was SEGA, not Sony. Deep apologies for the mistake.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: www.skh.news/the-coolest-rock/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

The United States killed foreign civilians for show and is excitedly returning to the Dept of War, but we aren’t at war, maybe?Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/were-not-at-war/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev - Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

While the United States continues to embarrass itself, science and medical research marches on.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/space-radios-and-cyber-crimes/- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

This week brought an absolute cavalcade of headlines, so let's take a sec to dig through a fewLinks:- Newsletter and Sources: www.skh.news/the-state-of-the-states/- Support my work on Patreon or elsewhere: https://isupport.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

Donald Trump has deployed hundreds of national guard members and federal agents to the streets of DC in a deeply embarrassing show of fragilityLinks:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/dc-occupied- Support my work: https://isupport.dev- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

The United States tries once again to solve homelessness with incarceration, but hey, we maybe discovered how to do alchemy. In theory.Stuff Keeps Happening is taking a short break. I will return with a new episode on August 18th.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/simply-outlaw-poverty/- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

A woman was rescued after 11 nights lost alone in the Australian outback, but that's not going to stop Mark Zuckerberg from building a datacenter the size of Manhattan so he can have his AI. Maybe it can better compute how many government services we're just going to drop funding for!Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/defunding-public-television- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

A small store loses a big dragon. Meanwhile, the US Justice Department tells the MAGA world to stop caring about Jeffrey Epstein, an AI sides with Hitler, the FBI seizes Switch games, and YouTube pulls back on slopLinks:- Stop killing games: https://stopkillinggames.com- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/wheres-my-charizard/- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

A bit of a discussion about what happens next for myself and Stuff Keeps Happening, and a look at the flooding in Texas, an HIV crisis in the DRC, and Zuckerberg's $100,000,000 compensation offersLinks:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/what-happens-next/- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

Democrats and Republicans alike have taken this opportunity to remind everyone that xenophobia belongs to no party, as Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC Dem primary. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans fashioned their version of Trump's budget and tax plan, which includes record-setting cuts to Medicare and is projected to add more to the deficit than the original House version of the bill, somehow.Links:- Newsletter and Sources: https://www.skh.news/the-mamdani-meltdown/- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/endeavorance- Browse my Merch Store: https://MerchFrom.dev- Join my Community: https://join.astral.camp

Try as I might, Stuff Keeps Happening. I had been planning for a usual episode this week, but after what went down this past weekend (covered in the previous video!) I wanted to still get a chance to talk about a few other stories I had been planning to cover.(Apologies that I cannot include the pictures of the cute book collector in an audio format, but imagine if you will the gooberiest dude possible)Links:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

Hello, dear listener. Looks like we're having a two-fer with out-of-ordinary entries.I had been working on a draft for tomorrow's newsletter, only to of course have it entirely undermined by the events that unfolded last night. I decided instead to record some more focused thoughts on the situation.Depending on how the next 24 hours or so go, I may put out a shorter newsletter/podcast covering some other topics, but I am treating everything as temporary for the time being.Wishing you well. Stay safe. Stay frosty. Stay skeptical. Remember your community.

A look at the timeline of the situation in Los Angeles so far, as well as a few of the other trillion things going on right nowLinks:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

A truck in Washington state overturned while carrying millions of bees, but a scrappy group of beekeeping heroes were on the case. Also, a look at the advancing surveillance technology use by US police, France goes dark and lights a fire, a Swiss town is buried, and Texas makes a move at Google and Apple.Links:- Newsletter and Sources- Donate to the Trevor Project- Learn about Fastmail or Protonmail- Join my Community

Apple went out of their way to show off a plethora of AI features that would come to their flagship iPhone 16 which released last year. After repeated delays, more information is coming out now about just how bleak the situation is internally at Apple regarding their botched Apple Intelligence rollout.Also, updates on the Big Beautiful Bill, some other tech companies show off their AI updates, and Kim Jong Un is having a bad time.Links:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

The US Government is working to forge a new tax and spending bill, which currently aims to cut hundreds of billions from medical support infrastructureLinks:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

The dumbest administration in US history continues to remind us how little integrity you need to wield powerLinks:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

Trump enacted blanket tariffs on basically the entire world last week, sending global markets into free-fall despite more than a year of warnings from financial experts that this would be disastrous.Also, the protests over the weekend were quite big, and we got a look at the Nintendo Switch 2This will be the last episode of Stuff Keeps Happening until May 5th! I'll be around for a few weeks before going on a long overdue vacation, but SKH will return to it's normal schedule next month. See you then, or see you sooner at my stream or on my socials! Links below.Links:- Newsletter and Sources- Support me on Patreon- Browse my Merch Store- Join my Community

We've seen a recent spike in demonstrations both in the United States and around the world for all sorts of reasons. Well really, for the same reason: people want stability and freedom. Let's talk protests.Read more about the Hands Off protests here: https://thirdact.org/act/handsoff/Links:Newsletter and SourcesSupport me on PatreonBrowse my Merch StoreJoin my Community